Reappraisals in the law of property
By: by John V. Orth.
Series: Law, property and society
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780754677314; 9780754694496
Subjects: Real property -- United States -- History; Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; Property -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Finding: asking the wrong question; title: The rule in Shelley's case: staying too long; title: Joint tenancy: accounting for continuity; title: Tenancy by the entirety: adapting to change; title: Leases: misled by a simile; title: The burden of an easement: playing a word game; title: Covenants of habitability: doing the right thing; title: Escheat: picking up the pieces; title: Intention: the law of unintended consequences; title: Competition: the race to the bottom; title: Fiction: pious fraud; title: Labels: argumentative jargon; title: Second thoughts: full enlightenment?.